I don't believe that the second X server issue has been worked out. I'm sure that the ATI card would work nicely in a second computer. nVidia does provide a lot of support for their Linux cards. If you bought one of the 7xxx line in either AGP or PCI Express, you should be quite happy. Some of the 6xxx line cards are very capable performers as well and they are a little cheaper. Happy fiddling Ralph Ellis Sunny wrote:

On 5/25/06, Ralph Ellis wrote:

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I just installed the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver on my system and I just thought that I would toss out a few comments for those people who are thinking about doing this upgrade.

That's all good. Anyway, on ATI site they still claim that they did not fix one of the big problems for me - it hangs when/if you start a second X server (either by hand, or using the switch user functionality). Can you confirm if this is still a problem, as I replaced my ATI card with nVidia for that reason alone. But now I'm planning to build another system for my daughter, and I may reuse the ATI card ...

Thanks

On Friday 26 May 2006 13:08, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

I've put up a guide to nVidia GeForce 6 and 7 performance (bang v. buck) -- including an _extensive_ set of tables of every GPU/card option:   http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2006/02/geforce-6-and-7-series-variants-nuts.h tml  

This is a VERY useful overview - thanks for putting it up. I shall be referring to it a lot in future! -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD

William Gallafent wrote:

On Thursday 25 May 2006 22:21, Ralph Ellis wrote: [snip] [Radeon 9600XT]

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I know from installing the ATI Propriety driver in Suse 10.0 that installation was a little tricky and it never did allow 3D acceleration.

Er, I had various Radeon 9xxx cards running with 3D acceleration on x86_64 machines from SuSE 9.2 onwards. The whole point of fglrx is that it gives you hardware OpenGL! It must have been a specific problem with your installation...

Anyway, glad to hear it works now :)

I think that the main difference for me this time was that I attempted to change the settings in YAST with the graphics mode turned off. This made it easier for SAX to suggest settings and change them on the fly. I believe that my previous attempt in Suse 10 was hampered by me attempting to change the settings via YAST while I was still in normal graphics display mode. I'm not completely sure but I think that my system could not turn Agpgart off while running it. Also this time the graphics card was already installed in my system while under 10.0, my system had been running the on board nVidia driver and then I physically installed the Radeon card. There are always a ton of variables when you make these changes. Ralph

On Friday 26 May 2006 16:50, Sinisa Bandin wrote:

I have tried ati 8.25.18 driver on my HP nx7010 laptop (Mobility Radeon 9200) and my desktop with Radeon 8500DV, and neither could be done. On laptop, I tried to download smaller rpm for x.org only and afer installation all I got is totaly garbled screen, with some out-of-range frequencies, "destroyed" all text consoles (either when I start with vga=normal, or vga=0x"some graphic mode"). All I could do is power off and back on, and return to original X.org driver. On desktop, I tried with larger (34.5MB) .run file, created rpm for SuSE 10.1, instaled it, and after starting "sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx"(as instructed in README.SuSE) screen switches to graphic mode, I can move mouse for about 3 seconds and then the machine freezes. All I can do is push reset button.

On third PC, with a generic Nvidia FX 5200 based card, everything "just happened" as it was supposed, Xgl is working great.

Any ideas about ATI are welcome, because I just cannot change laptop nor graphic card in desktop :(

I had a problem with my desktop computer which uses a Radeon 9600 card and an LCD monitor. Here's what I did to fix it. 1) Installed the fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1.i386.rpm file with: rpm -i --nodeps fglrx_6_8_0-8.25.18-1.i386.rpm 2) Booted to init level 3 (add a 3 to your kernel boot line) 3) Issued: sax2 -l This was the tough part because sax2 comes up in 640x480 mode which the monitor doesn't handle very well. Try to set the params for your monitor (resolution, size, freqs) You need to get a sax2 built xorg.conf file that has the settings you want in them even if they don't work right. 4) Run the ati-driver-installer-8.24.8-x86.run file to create an ATI xorg.conf file. And it worked for me. I fiddled with other stuff for 4 days before doing the above and it worked.